Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof speaks during a press briefing in London to announce the launch of Band Aid 30 to raise funds to fight Ebola in West Africa, Nov. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

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The drowned 3-year-old who perished as his family tried to flee Syria for safer shores has touched people around the world, including author JK Rowling, who tweeted a welcome message for refugees everywhere, the Guardian reports. "If you can't imagine yourself in one of those boats, you have something missing. They are dying for a life worth living. #refugeeswelcome," Rowling wrote in her tweet yesterday. Other celebrities have also joined the call for Europe to welcome refugees—and rock star Bob Geldof made a pretty incredible offer to house four refugee families.

Geldof said in an interview on Ireland's RTE Radio One that he and his partner, Jeanne, have "a place in Kent and a flat in London" they'd be willing to use to "put [four refugee families] up until such time as they can get going and get a purchase on their future," per Sky News. He was spurred into action by what he calls the "absolute sickening disgrace" of little Aylan Kurdi's body washing up on a Turkish shore, the Guardian notes. "I look at it with profound shame and a monstrous betrayal of who we are and what we wish to be," he said in the interview. "We are in a moment currently now that will be discussed and impacted on in 300 years' time." (An anonymous death notice in the Sydney Morning Herald also mourns Aylan.)

The average Iceland people are willing to share their homes. There is good i this world.

GodSAveAmerica

Sep 5, 2015 11:00 PM CDT

What is really needed to be looked at is why all these people (Muslims) fleeing the "Muslim" paradise since they are true believers? Is the truth be that this religion is nothing but a cover for murderous genocidal evil people - who even murder their own?

TheStupid1

Sep 5, 2015 10:49 PM CDT

IDIOTS!!! You are loading bullets into the gun that will eventually shoot you in the ass!